Paul Van Schil of Antwerp University Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium argues that surgery offers the best outcome for patients with mesothelioma.
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March 16, 2017
Robert Rintoul of Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK, reviews the outcomes of major mesothelioma trials, and argues that all mesothelioma surgery is currently palliative.
March 14, 2017
This video presents a uniportal VATS right upper lobe posterior segmentectomy for a pulmonary metastasis.
March 10, 2017
This video shows a thymectomy for a thymic cyst and a wedge resection of a nodule in the right upper lobe. A subxyphoid uniportal VATS approach was used.
March 8, 2017
This video shows a VATS resection of pulmonary sequestration in a previously healthy 55-year-old woman, who presented with chest pain.
March 6, 2017
This video shows a step-by-step approach to a robotic right middle lobectomy with a subxiphoid utility port.
March 5, 2017
The authors report the use of ECMO in 8 pts who suffered ARDS after pneumonectomy. Predicted mortality was 80% prior to ECMO institution. ECMO was weaned in 7 pts and overall hospital survival was 50%.
February 28, 2017
This video demonstrates a uniportal left upper lobe lobectomy with a partial pleurectomy.
February 15, 2017
This video demonstrates a uniportal anatomical fissureless VATS resection of the lingular segment in a 65-year-old patient with metachronous metastatic supraglottic carcinoma.
February 13, 2017
This video shows a three-port VATS left upper trisegmentectomy and superior lower lobe segmentectomy for ground glass lesions.